<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Dear Rebecca, Bill, Brad and Ian,<div>We grieve with you on the death of Nan. </div><div>I remember Nan so well and thoroughly enjoyed watching the video clip made on her 70 th Birthday! A woman of grace and inner strength and one who taught me many important things to enrich my own life. </div><div>We send deepest condolences to Bill and the family. Our lives were touched by Nan and we are kinder and more wholesome people through this. </div><div>With respect and in grief,</div><div>Isobel and Jim Bishop </div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Isobel Bishop<div>Mob. 0412 129 425</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 30 Sep 2020, at 12:56 am, Sarah H. Buss via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Dear Bill and loved ones,<div>And I thought Nan was one of those people who would live forever. At 92 she almost did, then went quickly and gracefully as she lived her life.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill, it is hard to think of one of you without the other, even now. Marilyn has frequently kept me up to date on the 2 of you. Be gentle with yourself in this time of transition knowing that you will be surrounded with love and support from so many.</div><div>Love and kindness,</div><div>Sarah <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 29, 2020, at 8:05 AM, Shelley Hahn via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Good morning, friends,<div><br></div><div>Rebecca Grow asked if I would forward this message to the OE list. It includes both her email address and Bill's.</div><div><br></div><div>Fond regards,</div><div>Shelley Hahn</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Rebecca Grow</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:rjgrow@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjgrow@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 3:15 PM<br>Subject: Nan Grow<br>To: <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>Cc: Bill Grow <<a href="mailto:billgrow@verizon.net" target="_blank">billgrow@verizon.net</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear Order Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">On behalf of Bill Grow, I am writing to let you know that my mother, Nan, suffered a large stroke on Thursday and died from it two days later. Our family gathered to be with her until the end and to support Dad. She was kept comfortable in hospice care and we prayed over her. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Nan would have turned 92 on October 23. I told my friends that she had been a missionary in Korea, a pastor’s wife and mother of four, a member of an ecumenical society that focused on community development as its mission, and a teacher who traveled throughout Asia and to Zambia and lived in Brazil. Along the way, she got her Doctor of Ministry degree and became a UCC pastor in Georgia and Florida. She lived a life of integrity, focused on acting out her faith. She loved poetry and language, and she played a wicked game of Scrabble. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">It has been hard for Bill and Nan, as for so many others, to bear the isolation that Covid-19 has imposed. I am grateful that they were able to spend their August wedding anniversary visiting—socially distanced—with Marilyn and Joe Crocker. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">We intend to organize an online memorial to share more of Nan’s story and to reminisce. It may be months before we do this. Meanwhile, we would be grateful to receive your stories and memories about her.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Bill will be sending a notice to another list, and he apologizes that some of you may receive this news in duplicate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Grace and peace to you,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt">Rebecca Grow</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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